A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society

The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.

• | Author: Lawrence B. Glickman
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: March 09, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0801486149
• | ISBN-13: 9780801486142